. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . fEpeirus. Farther north, at the foot of a range of hills, arethe remains of the great theatre, which is the mostconspicuous object among the ruins. It is one of thebest preserved Roman theatres in existence. Thetotal diameter is about 300 feet. The scene is 120feet long, and 30 in depth. There are 27 rows ofseats in three divisions. From the back of thetheatre rises the hill of MiJchalitzi, which was un-doubtedly the site of the tent of Augustus before thebattle of Actium. Close to the theatre are theruins of the stadium, which was circular at bothen
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . fEpeirus. Farther north, at the foot of a range of hills, arethe remains of the great theatre, which is the mostconspicuous object among the ruins. It is one of thebest preserved Roman theatres in existence. Thetotal diameter is about 300 feet. The scene is 120feet long, and 30 in depth. There are 27 rows ofseats in three divisions. From the back of thetheatre rises the hill of MiJchalitzi, which was un-doubtedly the site of the tent of Augustus before thebattle of Actium. Close to the theatre are theruins of the stadium, which was circular at bothends, unlike all the other stadia of Greece, butsimilar to several in Asia Minor, which have beenconstructed or repaired by the Romans. Below thestadium are some ruins, which are perhaps those ofthe gymnasium, since we know from Strabo (vii. ) that the gymnasium was near the accompanying map is taken from Lieut. Wolfessurvey. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. i. p. 185,seq.; Wolfe, in Journal of Geogr. Soc. vol. iii. , seq.). COIN OF XICOPOLIS IN EPEIRUS. 2. A town of Thrace, not far from the mouth ofthe Nessus, and therefore called by Ptolemy (iii. 11.§ 13) NiKoiroXts 7i irepl Neer ow. It appearsto have been founded by Trajan, as it is surnamedUlpia upon coins. The Scholiast upon Ptolemysays that it was subsequently named Christopolis ;but it is still called Xicopolis by Socrates (H. 36) and Hierocles (p. 635). 3. A town of Thrace at the foot of Mt. Haemus.(Ptol. iii. 11. § 11.) 4. A town of Thrace, situated at the place wherethe Iatrus flows into the Danube, and erected byTrajan in memory of his victory over the Dacians.(Amm. Mare. xxxL 5 ; Jornand. de Beb, Get. c. 18;Hierocl. p. 636.) NICOTERA (Nicotera), a town of Bruttium,known only from the Antonine Itinerary (pp. 106,111), which places it 18 M. P. south of ViboValentia, on the road to Rhegium. It is repeatedlymentioned in the middle ages, and still exists underits ancient name as a considerable to
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